Word: bureaucrat
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Zhang Yong, a bright, up-and-coming bureaucrat, thought his financial expertise and Ivy League education would prepare him well for the tricky issues he would face in his job as vice director of economic development in Taizhou, one of the fastest-growing cities in one of China's fastest-growing provinces, Zhejiang. Instead, he found himself tackling a problem that seemed more appropriate for a Third World backwater than a Chinese boomtown: a chronic shortage of electricity. Last year, Taizhou's economy grew at an astounding 15%, but all the gleaming new factories pushed electrical consumption...
...bureaucrat,” Todd says, “he is also the only bureaucrat who thought it was his job to make people’s jobs easier...
...might was America's way forward, which he expressed to his younger brother in a good-bye letter. Frank, a world-record swimmer and president of his class at Exeter, figures prominently, and the two brothers become a study in contrasts: the disillusioned idealist vs. the studied, realistic, flexible bureaucrat. James Lilley is the brother who survived?and he believes that only through pragmatism will the U.S.-China relationship survive, as well...
...telemarketing job at SkyMall and getting his only thrills from ordering X-rated merchandise for oblivious customers, Gabe gladly springs back onto the rallying circuit. He begins merely by offering innovative protest ideas and typing posters, but he eventually gets sucked into helping kidnap the son of city bureaucrat Robert Barrone to protest cuts of service to low-income neighborhoods. Based on actual research done by Flood, who is a Crimson editor, on the squatters and drug epidemic in the 1970s and ’80s, the play gives an inside look at the grimier side of bureaucratic...
...extended his tour of duty on the condition he be given a frontline rifle company to lead. "I thought I was immortal," says Beers, now 61. He survived the experience and returned to Washington in the early 1970s to settle into a long, safe career as a national-security bureaucrat...